OBSCURITY IN LITERATURE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 13

OBSCURITY IN LITERATURE.

*, »; - 'S'CpJ. STEIN,'AND fOffCEfn .<;£ , : - ! ■' :cKv> : p W ( Mr David Oarnett, the novelist who, % lectured to, the the. Association recently; subject "Is coherence appreciation in literature J" confessed ;i amotnit of time and thought jto, theme; he; was ,unable *to »ieome' ti-iny conclusion upon it. But then, be said, .• in sssthetics nothing could be measured accurately. B!e proposed, therefore, to play about with eertain ideas wpj indulge in- the interesting pastime jof sniping «t bis betters from this' Tear|^ A certain school Cambridge, said' Mr .Garnett, 1 - clarity to be esserit&T to there was "a great mass *of - Snglxw r V poetry, inelnding parts of Shakespeare, | Milton, Vaughan; and Blake, .wifich waa. ~ lacking in clarity,«and irhet«, a*J6r first gasp of, ainazp»ent - andone bad to cudgel 1 one's^".brains at the 'meaniAg,: A' tecent gone so'.far as-to say that t -was essential to great'poetrjt.,.» i certain that*'we -JP«st powers of appreciation;, be-put off ■ a Tfrit'er . our picjudiccß, must keep our-power ■we must to appreciate it. But if wo could not- - discover either whpro a* wriCcf scftinfe out from or" 1 beading for, *e\|; Were J lost'indeed-y " al friend,'' J